An issue in Eternity systems is how to motivate participants.
You can pay storers or retrievers, but this introduces biasses
that have been discussed here. Other motivational structures
have been proposed [1] too. But why is Joe Sixpack going to install
some program that he'll rarely use?
Instead, Stego your Eternal data into MP3s
and propogate. The MP3 propogation structure is there, in
Napster, and more robust distributed-index versions that will follow.
After some percolation [2] time, the info will
be pretty hard to remove. You can reveal the key then.
You could search for the data by MP3 name and/or size and/or other
parameters, like Wrapster does. Or the Stego's MP3 could be
identical in size to other MP3s of the same name, for stealth, and
you'd have to download several and try to decrypt them.
The beauty is that the carrier data, being aesthetically pleasing, has
created an infrastructure for us. The charm is that a million tuneswapping
Americans will just laugh when they get requests from Her Inbred Majesty.
Maybe Shayler's next installment will be in the form of a Carl Johnson
tune...
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[1] E.g., use a ponzi/investment scheme, reward donors with twice their
donated resources in the future.
[2] By default, downloaded files are available for upload.
